You might share the road, especially in the agricultural villages, with a tractor, a horse, or a horse and cart, with people in it. Occasionally you will see them on the larger roads.
This was the local taxi rank near our hotel. A ride in a taxi is a nerve racking experience.
*Having said Turks are very kind, patient people, when they get behind the wheel, they become possessed. They drive like they are in a race; stop signs are merely a suggestion; lane lines on the roads, well how many lanes can you make from a two lane road; the indicators, what are they? and the shortest period of time is just before the light turns green and the horns start honking. I think we actually had one day where no one honked at a red light.
*Dress ranges from barely covered to fully covered. In the rural villages you tend to see more of the full coverage, although we see a lot of women who just cover their heads here in Bursa. I don't think they outweigh the non covered. The ones fully covered in black tend to be Arabs.
*The call to prayer happens 5 times a day. Used to be the imam or priest climbed up the minarets and sang the call to prayer; now they are recorded broadcasts. You don't really notice them too much in the day, but the one that comes at 4am or there about, if the windows are open, is most annoying. There are more non-practicing Muslims in Turkey than practicing. There again, the smaller, rural, poorer villages tend to be the ones to attend mosque, the holy day being Friday. But it is business as usual, those attending mosque will have a 2 hour lunch - go to lunch, go to mosque, return to work.
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